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    March 16 – March 22

    This Week in Indiana History

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    March 18, 1953, 15th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas, 69-68.

    March 20, 1954, The basketball team from tiny Milan High School won the state championship. The victory was the inspiration for the film “Hoosiers,” one of the most popular sports movies of all time.

    March 19, 1955, Crispus Attucks High School, led by Oscar Robertson, defeated Gary Roosevelt to win the state basketball championship. It was the first all-black high school in the nation to win the state title.
    Where in Indiana

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    Indiana Quick Quiz
    1. Where was the first gymnasium for basketball built in Indiana?
    2. What year was the first state Basketball tournament sponsored by the IHSAA?
    3. Who is the U.S. representative from Indiana who won the IHSAA Trester award for mental attitude in 1948?
    4. Who is the first person to play on an Indiana state high school basketball tournament champion team and also coach a state championship team?
    Answers Below

    Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in Indianapolis at the Indiana War Memorial & Museum.

    “If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we’re gonna be winners.”

    -Gene Hackman
    As Coach Noman Dale in Hoosiers.
    Send your favorite Hoosier quote to: RegEdwards@idoa.in.gov
    Answers
    1. Newberry in Greene County in 1916
    2. 1912
    3. Rep. Lee Hamilton
    4. Burl Friddle

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